Originally Posted by
one_beatnik
I was just in the Portland airport a couple weeks ago. I talked with an employee who was just coming into the terminal with his bike. He said at that hour (7:30AM) downtown Portland is nearly impossible to drive a car in from the bikes and peds. Right outside the door where we were talking, the airport had set up a Parks repair stand and the sign said tools were available at customer service so those flying in could assemble their bikes right there. Very cool!!
"Impossible to drive a car in" is a subjective term, I suppose. There are a lot of bicylcists in Portland, but I don't think they've quite choked out the auto traffic yet.
According to
this post from Bike Portland (citing census data), nearly 6% of Portlanders (about 16000 people) use bicycling as their primary form of transportation to and from work. The entry also says that this number has increased (in Portland) by 230% since 2000, which, if I'm parsing the language correctly, is tripling.